Local schools scramble to meet voucher application deadline

8:14 PM,
Jul. 29, 2013

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Starting Thursday, parents can apply for the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program and local schools are scrambling to meet the deadline.

School officials say that since Gov. Scott Walker didn't sign the bill that extended the school voucher program statewide until the beginning of July, it's left little time to make the program happen for the 2013-14 school year.

"It's a fairly intensive (application) process but it's also a tight time frame," said John Andringa, the science teacher and registrar at Sheboygan County Christian High School who is spearheading the school's effort to take part ...